Here is a paper that the Social Market Foundation has published today entitled “Long Term Care of the Elderly: Shaping the Future”.
The paper is co-authored by Rt Hon Lord Warner, Labour peer and former Health Minister; Rt Hon Stephen Dorrell, Conservative MP and former Secretary of State for Health; Baroness Neuberger, Liberal Democrat peer and former head of the King’s Fund; Lord Lipsey, Labour peer and author of the minority report from the Royal Commission on Long Term Care for the Elderly; as well as Sir Derek Wanless, author of several reports on future NHS spending for HM Treasury.
The authors call for cross-party agreement from politicians, experts, care providers, and older people and their families to support:
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Fundamental, not piecemeal, reform to promote improvements in quality and capacity and to prepare for demographic challenges; |
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A frank and honest public debate about the scale of reform needed and its true costs; and |
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Changes that will endure for the long term and that will truly meet the demands of an increasingly-ageing population. |
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the internet tonight .....
My Lord Warner: This really is a very good analysis from a former Labour Health Minister (Lord Warner) who served as Director of Social Services in Kent. It is a devastating critique and a rewarding read about Labour's throwing money at the NHS and starving Social Services.
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Judge William Young: This came to me over the Internet. It relates to the USA, a country I generally admire. However, some of us might fervently hope that the government after the General Election will create a country whose judges would be as robust as this US Judge.
Remember the guy who got on a plane with a bomb built into his shoe and tried to light it?
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Did you know his trial is over? |
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Did you know he was sentenced? |
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Did you see/hear any of the judge's comments on TV or Radio? |
Didn't think so.!!! Everyone should hear what the judge had to say.
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